Codon usage patterns in Nematoda: Analysis based on over 25 million codons in thirty-two species

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Mitreva, Makedonka ^a   Wendl, Michael C ^a   Martin, John ^a   Wylie, Todd ^a   Yin, Yong ^a   Larson, Allan ^a   Parkinson, John ^b   Waterston, Robert H ^c   McCarter, James P ^a,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Divergence Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE; NUCLEOTIDE; CODON; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLADISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA CONTENT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLOBODERA; HELMINTH; MELOIDOGYNE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRISTIONCHUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRONGYLOIDES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GLOBODERA; MELOIDOGYNE; NEMATODA; PRISTIONCHUS; STRONGYLOIDES;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33749549476     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-8-r75     Document Type: Article

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